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Helen Quinn receives the 2024 Matteucci Medal from the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze in Rome. It was awarded by Professor Corrado De Concini, president of...

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July 12, 2024
Since 1868, only four women have been awarded the Matteucci Medal, an Italian award that recognizes physicists around the world.

Susan Clark has long been drawn to the interstellar medium, the gas and dust that magnetic fields sculpt into stars.

Rachel Bujalski for Quanta Magazine

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July 1, 2024
Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden hand at play…

Jason Hogan (left) and Mark Kasevich work on an atom interferometer — a device that could reveal mergers of black holes much more massive than those seen by...

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June 27, 2024
Atom interferometry: closing the gapAlthough many of these projects push gravitational-wave science towards lower frequencies, they leave a crucial…
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June 26, 2024
Top prize for leadership in physics to be awarded to Stanford professor, Nobel laureate, and former Secretary of Energy for outstanding impact on our…
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June 3, 2024
Dean Debra Satz honored seven faculty members with a 2023-24 H&S Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Recipients include:
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June 3, 2024
Lecture Date: Thursday 31 October 2024Time: 15.15Oskar Klein Lecture: Renata Kallosh
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May 23, 2024
Press Release of the International Award Committee of the Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize 
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May 2, 2024
Researchers at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory demonstrate the generation of continuous-variable graph states of…

Adam Shaw, Caltech

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April 25, 2024
Adam Shaw studies quantum computing at the scale of atoms.
April 12, 2024
Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it?

An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk. (Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator...

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April 3, 2024
Risa Wechsler, a cosmologist who directs the Kavli Institute for Particle…

Peter Sturrock, in a 1930 school photograph from "The Life and Times of a Dissident Scientist".

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March 21, 2024
Peter Andrew Sturrock was born 20 March 1924.
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